Utilizing Tenets of Inoculation Theory to Develop and Evaluate a Preventive Alcohol Education Intervention
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of School Health
- Vol. 53 (4), 250-256
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.1983.tb01139.x
Abstract
With the advent of the Surgeon General's Report, Healthy People, a renewed interest in and concern for the health-risky practices of the school aged has emerged. Moreover, because the mortality rates for the 15 to 24 year age group continues to increase while the mortality rates for every other age group continues to decline, a school health education imperative has become prevention-based interventions. The experimental, prevention-based alcohol education program reported here describes one such intervention directed at 9th grade students. The program was grounded on the principles of Inoculation Theory and evaluated using a Solomon Four-Group Design. Results indicate that the formulation of preventive alcohol education programs utilizing Inoculation Theory in a school setting is both feasible and productive in achieving designated objectives. Longitudinal assessment of the subjects with regard to their alcohol-related behavior is continuing throughout their high school careers.Keywords
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